go on the scout

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, scout.; to go on a scouting mission.

   • Foster wanted Hateher to go on another scout and he told the Lieutenant that if he would pay back his money that he had paid out for the State, so he could get some blankets—as the weather was getting bad—that he would go on the scout.
   • Slocum went on the scout early the next morning. He saddled up Oro in the freezing cold and rode north toward the wild place that had been designated a national park in 1875, Yellowstone.
   • Bloody Feet will choose two warriors and go on the scout to the Iowa nation.
2. 2

   To go into hiding.

   • Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?
   • The word from Tuxie Miller, who had seen Zeke after he returned home with Becca, was that Zeke was so apprehensive about the arrival of the white law that he planned to go on the scout the very next day.
   • Work like this here's the reason I went on the scout in the first place.

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